Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

AN1' h>>s ''DF
this winter.
The Grand hotel scheme at Fargo has abou
fallen through.
The Clark building association has $40, 00
out on loans.
Sphinx county is dissatisfied with her new
court house.
The earth Is frozen to the depth Of four fee
In the Black Hills.
There are seventy.three students in the uni
versity at Pierre.
A forty pound beaver was trapped neal
Sioux Falls last week.
Ice on the Missouri river at Vermillion i:
two to three feet thick.
The Methodists OF Ysnkton are in favor OF
permitting women to vote.
The First National bank of Rapid City has
increased its surplus $40, 900.
A $4,000 stock company has been organized
at Lisbon TO run Il creamery.
An approaching boom in mining stocks is
detected by the Deadwood Pioneer.
Arlington is TO have a creamery, 81, SOC
having been subscribed for that purpose.
The gasworks plant at Kearney was put in
last November and has fifty consumers.
Joseph Wallace has been adjudged insane
by the commissioners of st. Lawrence county
The outlook for q building boom in Sioux
Falls was never SO good as at the presen,
time.
Glendale is growing fast and 1t is expected
that she will take rapid strides forward here.
after.
Tn Odd Fellows Of Rapid City have decided
to invest $4,000 In a building for lodge pur-
poses.
A travelling salesman for a shirt factory was
fined SIS for soliciting orders without q
license.
The Grand Forks board of trade are esti-
ma ing for a $50, 900 bridge across the Red
river at that place.
Villas is excited over the discovery Of soft
coal at that place. The tipd was made while
digging the town well.
1t Is intended to expend about $1,000 this
season In enlarging and improving the Cat
aract house at Sioux Falls.
In the first oratorical debate between the
Yankton college and the Vermillion univer-
sity the latter institution was successful.
G. +. Coats, according to the Sioux Falls
Press, has been running a threshing machine
ever since last fall, finishing up his last stack
OF grain the 18th.
Prosecutions have been commenced against
vendors Of liquor In Howard. The first case
resulted In conviction. The village has an
ordinance prohibiting the sale Of intoxicants.
A semi-oficial report Of the gold and silver
product Of the Black Hills for last year places
the total at 81, S56, 6S7. This does not include
the ores and base bullion shipped out Of the
Hills.
An inhuman wretch living near Wentworth
starved his wife TO death a few days ago.
Nelghhors would furnish eatsbles for her but
he would not let her eat 1t and would eat 1t
himself.
The superintendent OF police at Chicago has
sent 20 the marshal at Lincoln a description
of Alexander Hughburg, a jew, WHO'S wanted
In that city for the embezzlement OF 1900. A
reward is offered for his arrest.
The Select Knights, A. O. L. w. Of Dakota,
met at Huron last week and elected these
officers for the Third regiment: Colonel, &.
s. G. Fuller, De Smet; lieutenant colonel, II.
r. McNutt, Aberdeen; major, c. C.. Huff,
Huron.
There Is no monotony In the climate in the
vicinity OF Sioux Falls. From Saturday morn
ing until Sunday evening the Thermometer
varied sixty degrees, n greater variation thar
Is known In some climates during the Who'll,
year.
In a trial before a justice OF the peace a
Lead City, during the temporary absence OF
the court, the plaintiff whipped the defendant
while the attorneys kept the crowd back Sc
and the trial proceeded.
The southern convocation Of the Episcopa
church or the diocese Of Nebraska convened
at Beatrice Monday for a three days session
There were about twenty clergymen pfesen
from various pa.,s of the state and Bishop
Worthingtop presided.
Oliver Gaar, a ranchman living on the Bel
Fourche, between Empire and Vale, was founC
a few days ago almost frozen to- death. IL,
was living In bachelor quarters and wher
found WAS In bed, scantly covered, and nc
fire In the house, or fuel on hand. 1t is be
lieved he will die. His age is seventy-one.
Farmers In the neighborhood Of Howard, IN
Miner county, have succeeded in obtaining
strong Hows OF good water by means Of test
ing augurs constructed by attaching ordinary
carpenters bits to iron rods. The augurs ARE
turned by hand with the aid OF short levers,
and under favorable conditions a depth Of
fifty to seventy feet can be reached In one day.
Most of the flows have been secured within
eight feet Of the surface.
A letter received by the Sioux Falls Press
from the Black Hills reports the snow six
feet deep on a level Ia the gulches about
DeaGwood. The letter added that II it went
of suddenly 1t would wash the Hills metropo-
lis out Of existence. This, however, is re-
garded as extravaganza, because the people
there have protected the most valuable portion
of the town by a bulkhead that will resist any
thing but a monster waterspout. In the
spring of 1876 the snow was so deep In Dead
wood as TO necessitate tunneliug through IL
from one side OF the street TO the other.
The formal opening of the Dakota school OF
mines took place Monday In the presence of
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